In "The New Revelation" the first dawn of the coming change has been described. In "The Vital Message" the sun has risen higher, and one sees more clearly and broadly what our new relations with the Unseen may be. As I look into the future of the human race I am reminded of how once, from amid the bleak¹ chaos² of rock and snow at the head of an Alpine³ pass, I looked down upon the far stretching view of Lombardy, shimmering⁴ in the sunshine and extending in one splendid panorama⁵ of blue lakes and green rolling hills until it melted into the golden haze⁶ which draped the far horizon. Such a promised land is at our very feet which, when we attain⁷ it, will make our present civilisation⁸ seem barren and uncouth⁹. Already our vanguard is well over the pass. Nothing can now prevent us from reaching that wonderful land which stretches so clearly before those eyes which are opened to see it.